Kimbly!
Hey there.
Well?
I'm going to take revenge for what you did to Greed-san and my friends!
Kimbly-san, what are you doing here?!
It shouldn't be that unusual, considering I am a State Alchemist, right?
You sold us out and returned to the military! You're the worst!
Are you sure you want to let her kill me like this?
Martel-san, please stop!
What are you doing?! Let go! Let go of me!
Are you all right?
You should make for some fine fireworks.
Let me go!
Kimbly-san, what on earth are you doing to that man?!
I am, first and foremost, a soldier.
There's no reason why I should bear the blame of some hooligan.
Martel-san!
Man cannot obtain anything without first sacrificing something.
In order to obtain anything, something of equal value is required.
That is alchemy's Law of Equivalent Exchange.
At the time, we believed that to be the true way of the world.
Far away, far away, our dreams will never fade,
if only the two of us could go back to the days when we laughed so innocently...
Just like glassware that has been smashed to pieces,
we're putting together the fragments of our memories.
It's the important things that you notice, once you've lost them.
Oh, please, oh, please, stop time for me,
and engrave the way you look right now into my heart.
And if, and if, I was ever allowed to,
I would be willing to sacrifice everything,
just to see that smiling face one more time.
"The Scar"
And here I was hoping to see a really exciting explosion...
...but thanks to your interference...!
Please do not do anything to Martel-san.
By Martel, do you mean this snake here?
Martel-san is a person!
I wasn't aware of that.
These guys are Chimeras.
They aren't even full-fledged life forms!
Kind of like you.
You get away from Martel-san!
I'm not giving you the chance to transmute!
Al...!
Now!
To think that you'd be deliberately providing me with ingredients...
Martel-san!
Why, you monster...!
Colonel...
He, like his brother, is under my jurisdiction.
If you have any problems with him, you can file a written complaint.
Mark my word, I'm going to blow up that suit of armor.
You're going to the front yourself, Fuhrer?
I won't let Liore become another lshbal.
Unless we bring an end to this quickly, with a minimum of casualties...
Y-Yes, of course.
I want you to take over as acting Fuhrer.
Y-You want me to?
Don't let me down.
Yes, sir!
Acting Fuhrer! Acting Fuhrer!
Oh, and sorry, but could you send something to my wife for me?
She gets lonely all alone at home.
I'm counting on you.
Yes, sir!
Yet another city must fall...
...for those who seek the Philosopher's Stone.
If you've come this far, then you must know what my objective is.
Yeah.
You must be thinking of doing something foolish,
like creating a Philosopher's Stone.
I won't let you get in my way.
A Philosopher's Stone...?
There's something I have to ask you.
Four years ago, back in Central,
did you see a Chimera that looked like a dog?
I sent it back to God.
Why would you do that?!
What else would you have had me do?
That's not the kind of thing that we should be deciding!
Is that all you have to say?
Do you plan on wiping out Rose, and the other people of this city,
with that same self-serving logic?!
You know Rose?
I'm going to open your eyes!
HOW?!
Don't you know? You're an alchemist, after all.
I'm an alchemist?
Alchemy is comprised of
the three steps of comprehension, decomposition, and reconstruction.
You unconsciously read your opponent's metallic composition,
and then adjust your own technique to destroy it.
That's why I've been replacing the metal of my Automail
with other metals besides steel.
So that's it.
Of course, rapidly swapping around the metal in my Automail
is messing up its delicate adjustments,
so I'm going to put you down quick!
You stupid ass!
Once you use the lives of this town's people to make your Philosopher's Stone,
it will then be your turn to have vengeance taken against you!
Have you forgotten? I can also destroy living flesh.
Homunculi?
Call me Lust, please.
I'm Gluttony!
You understand why we're telling you our names, right, Fullmetal Boy?
Yeah, you mean that today, we'll be saying goodbye.
Ah, that was hot!
Don't kill us off so casually, if you don't mind.
Like you did to Greed.
And here we were protecting you,
scarred man of lshbal.
I am your enemy, am I not?
If you're going to create a Philosopher's Stone,
then we will protect you.
We won't let the boy interfere, either.
Do you recognize this?
It is something you gave my brother.
What are you talking about?
Remember!
Lust?
Lust!
I hate you! I hate you all!
What's the story between you and that homunculus?
It's none of your business!
Wait!
Rose... and Lyra, too?!
"Please, listen to what that man has to say, Ed."
That's what Rose-san apparently wants to tell you.
Rose, you can't talk?
Keep it as a good luck charm, so that even when I'm gone,
you won't forget about me.
Back when lshbal was still peaceful,
I had an older brother.
An intelligent brother,
who I was proud of, and who was respected by everyone.
My brother had a beautiful girlfriend.
She fell ill,
and soon after, she was called home to lshbala.
Brother, what are you searching for?
The Grand Art.
It's a hallowed endeavor that can bring all people back to life.
That's what those people from Central recently tried to promulgate here--
what they called alchemy--isn't it?
They say that within the Grand Art,
there is a technique that brings people back to life.
I see...
...so that's it. That explains it.
Brother! Brother!
My brother defied the teachings of lshbala in order to bring her back to life.
He lost part of his body,
and yet she still had not come back.
My brother was cast out.
The Grand Art was the greatest abomination in lshbal, after all.
However, did my brother succeed after all?
That woman named Lust...
Do you know how homunculi are born?
People conduct human transmutation, and fail.
The botched product that is born at that time is a homunculus.
Come to mention it, I heard about that from Dante-san as well.
She said she once committed human transmutation,
and had created a homunculus.
That could have been Greed.
But they shouldn't be able to survive very long, as they are.
Someone is getting homunculi like Lust and Envy together,
giving them multiple lives, and controlling them.
Then, Lust is the one my brother created?
She doesn't have a soul.
She's just a monster that has the same appearance.
Lust was affected by this good luck charm.
Homunculi have a weakness when it comes to the remains of the person
who was the basis of their human transmutation.
Soon after my brother departed,
we were invaded for no reason.
We were angered by the sudden attack,
and rose up.
And so, a long conflict began.
I've learned a way to create a Philosopher's Stone.
Brother...!
If we were to possess its power,
we could save lshbal from its crisis.
In the middle of the war,
nobody rebuked my brother for returning.
However, just as my brother was about to complete the Philosopher's Stone,
he suddenly renounced his research.
I now know the reason why.
I also heard the story, from an outcast in Kishua.
It takes a large number of human lives to create a Philosopher's Stone
using the Grand Art, as well.
That's right.
It probably takes so many lives,
it would mean the destruction of a whole town, or a whole people.
Unless the frustration, malice, and anger released at that time
all blend together,
a Philosopher's Stone cannot be formed.
In order to save lshbal, we needed a Philosopher's Stone.
However, for that to happen,
lshbal would have to be destroyed.
I am the State Alchemist in charge of the extermination of this district.
State Alchemist“?
No more, please!
We have been driven from our land, and we are fleeing.
Isn't that enough?
I was just told to exterminate you.
I am to stamp out every last one of you who has eyes and skin of a different color.
Why?!
Who knows?
I just had a great idea.
I think I'll blow up your body, a little bit at a time.
First, I'll turn your skin into an explosive.
Whoops...
Next will be this arm.
Now then, next will be...
That body of yours looks like a transmutation circle.
I didn't know there were any alchemists in lshbal.
However, we have these transmutation amplifiers.
Col. Grand!
What the...?
Brother...!
Brother!
I commit the lives of our people within my body...
...to you.
No! Brother, why did you do this?!
There is power within that arm.
If I had not done this, you would be dead.
Brother... Brother...!
I have done something that cannot be forgiven.
You... liked her, didn't you?
Forgive me...
lam going on ahead... to see her, first...
Your brother was trying to transmute a Philosopher's Stone inside his own body.
He took the lives of the dying lshbalan people,
and entrusted them to you, together with his own arm.
The Philosopher's Stone itself possesses power.
That's how I managed to hold on to my life.
That arm itself is an unfinished Philosopher's Stone.
That's why it reacts with red stones.
It will take even more lives in order to complete it.
Which is why you're setting Rose up to be some charismatic leader,
and manipulating the people of Liore?!
Hold on!
Scar-san is not going to sacrifice the people of Liore.
Lyra, what are you even doing here?
After Dante-san passed away,
I searched for a place where I could make my alchemy useful.
And then I learned of Scar-san's plans.
Just before the fighting begins,
the people are going to flee through an underground passageway
that has been made under the old church.
And then, the soldiers who have been lured into the city will be...
That means there will still be casualties!
Besides, how is it all right to kill soldiers--
Do you know what they've done in this town?
What did the military do to Rose?
She was taken into the military's custody,
and when she came home, she had lost her speech.
Would you still ask us to forgive the military?
Martel-san, where are you?
This is a problem. I want to go pick up Brother.
Havoc-san!
What's the matter? Don't tell me there's an attack!
I don't know what's going on, but I heard that the Fuhrer has arrived.
It pleases me that the Fuhrer himself would call for someone such as myself.
There is a matter of some secrecy that I would like you two to lend me a hand with.
Lt. Col. Kimbly, I want you to take the lead of Tucker-kun's Chimeras and infiltrate the city.
I see, so you want us to run wild and get them mad enough to attack?
The same trick that we used in the fighting at lshbal.
But even if we don't go to all that trouble...
We will only act in order to restore peace.
If they're the ones who start it, we can say we're fighting for a just cause.
Also, there is still one State Alchemist in Liore, right?
Edward Elric?
He has probably been killed. Find his body for me.
That will make our cause even more just.
Even if I don't find his corpse, I will see to it that he becomes one.
A shame that we had to lose him.
I won't let you do it!
I won't let you do the same thing you did to lshbal, nor will I let you kill Ed!
Come on, you're going to withdraw those orders!
Or else...
Your swift movements will not work against me.
I have the Mightiest Eye, you see.
Ed! Al!
Al!
Martel-san!
Al, listen to me, and tell Ed, too!
Whatever, just get inside me!
Al, listen...
Are you okay, Alphonse-kun?
I have executed the Chimera that appeared to be threatening you.
On the day you left, I said goodbye, and waved, like always.
Almost as if I would see you again in this town tomorrow.
To believe in love is to not give up on yourself.
And until the day when my dream comes true,
I will be here with a smile, as I look up at the stars,
offering up a prayer.
I want to be the sky for you,
bundling you up, sorrows and all,
so that you know, whenever you look up,
that you are not alone,
even when you're far away,
and that you have a place to come home to.
Fullmetal Alchemist...
Episode 41: "Holy Mother."
"Holy Mother"
I hear it--that voice...
That familiar voice, that was supposed to have been lost a long time ago...